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NASA Audio File

NASA and contractor managers met on June 28 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to evaluate the status of the final space shuttle mission, Atlantis’ STS-135 flight to the International Space Station.

The Flight Readiness Review is a standard meeting before all shuttle launches to allow management to assess how all reparations for a mission are progressing. The FRR was held at Kennedy’s Operations Support Building II.

Cut 1 – (00:07) – “We set July 8th for the launch, and I think in plain time, it’s 11:26am.”› Play Now

Bill Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Space Operations

Cut 2 – (00:13) – “We had a very thorough review, like our previous FRR’s. We spent quite a bit of time going over each activity that is going to occur on this flight. There are some unique things that are associated with this flight.”› Play Now

Mike Moses, Space Shuttle Program Launch Integration Manager

Cut 1 – (00:06) - “We are really looking forward to achieving this mission and putting the station where it needs to be and finishing strong with the shuttle program here with STS-135,”› Play Now